ENLS 206. American Literature from 1860 to WWI. 1 Credit.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
This course surveys U.S. literature from the Civil War to World War I, a period of emancipation, reconstruction, industrialization, immigration and empire. Readings include realist and regionalist writers (Twain, Chesnutt, Harper, Howells, Jewett), naturalists (Crane, Norris, Dreiser) and early modernists (James, Wharton, Du Bois), alongside cultural documents tracing transformations in race, labor, gender and national identity.